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Originally posted by Akezzon
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
i get a kick out of you people,, you actually think all that space dust were flying saucers zooming around to see a big long rope??? Man no wonder P.T. Barnum made a bundle out of faking wierd things. I believe he said there was a sucker born every minute.. hmmmm
Space dust doesn't change directions, they don't flash, they don't have a universal apperence, and if there were that much dust and debri out there I wouldn't dare sending anyone outside our atmosphere.
Ice crystals, debri, junk etc DO exists yes, and they to get caught on film sometimes. But the tether incident does not show any of this.
Best UFO footages are imo those taken above earth atmosphere.
Yet many of those sequences are in fact space debri. But it is those obejcts that change flight patterns during filming that interests me.
In space there is not external force that can make an object turn 90 degrees and accelerate after awhile out of the picture.
If you believe that to be space dust then you are just unwilling to see the possibilities.
Originally posted by Blueracer
So when you watched the video, the first thing you thought about was the tether?
Even though the tether is pretty irrelevant in the context of the video.
Originally posted by NGC2736
If the objective was to somehow attract this "swarm", why use the tether at all? It would seem reasonable that just jettesoning an expendable item would work.
And if it was a planned event, why the "panic" for pictures?
Originally posted by easynow
got any links to this ?
The board offered, in the form of observations, its assessment that the STS-75 tether problem "is not indicative of any fundamental problem in using electrodynamic tethers." It also noted that in spite of the break, a "significant amount" of scientific data was obtained from the Tethered Satellite operations during STS-75.
The board found that the arcing burned away most of the tether material at that location, leading to separation of the tether from tensile or pulling force. The break occurred when approximately 12.2 miles (19.7 km) of tether was unreeled, in a period when the tether was experiencing normal stresses of approximately 15 pounds (65 newtons).
In addition to the two primary causes for the tether break, the board cited, as one contributing factor, that "the degree of vulnerability of the tether insulation to damage was not fully appreciated." The board noted that the actual environment that the tether was exposed to in flight made it more vulnerable to damage than was expected. And, it noted that the high voltages under which the system was operating could, over a period of time, have reduced the ability of the tether insulation to withstand electrical breakdown due to contamination found in the tether.
Originally posted by secretnasaman
This electricity somehow caused the UFOs to swarm it for days.
Originally posted by secretnasaman
The clip also implies that they can be made to break away, to be used as satellite "killers".
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
i get a kick out of you people,, you actually think all that space dust were flying saucers zooming around to see a big long rope??? Man no wonder P.T. Barnum made a bundle out of faking wierd things. I believe he said there was a sucker born every minute.. hmmmm
Originally posted by zorgon
The tether is 12 cm in diameter... when it is filmed it it 85 nautical miles away... does no one question why it is visible? Even Mission control says "its wider than expected"
Originally posted by zorgon
Does no one question why they are filming this in infrared?
Originally posted by zorgon
Does no one question why one of the 'swarm' moves across the screen slowly in an ARC... then as it goes off screen on the right the camera zooms out to keep it in sight and it is now moving DOWN the screen?
Do you have that value right? 12 cm?
Originally posted by zorgon
The tether is 12 cm in diameter... when it is filmed it it 85 nautical miles away... does no one question why it is visible? Even Mission control says "its wider than expected"
Originally posted by ArMaP
Do you have that value right? 12 cm?
Originally posted by zorgon
The tether is 12 cm in diameter... when it is filmed it it 85 nautical miles away... does no one question why it is visible? Even Mission control says "its wider than expected"
Wasn't it 2.5 mm?
And how big do you estimate those “space dust particles” must be then when you compare the size of them in relation with the length of the tether and cable [12 mile long]?
To me it always matters, a measurement is a measurement, and 12 cm would be 48 times bigger than 2.5 mm.
Originally posted by TheEnlightenedOne
Would that even matter? 12cm or 2.5mm is still so small in comparison to the actual "diameter" it seems to have at 85nm.
"If you look at enough video, you see this as a standard out-of-focus effect,'' he said. "This particular camera system isn't designed for low light levels and it's being pushed beyond its specifications in order to zoom in on the tether. Under these conditions, the tether itself looks bizarre, because it's only as thick as a phone cord, maybe an eighth of an inch. But because the image intensifier is turned all the way up, what we see is a phantom thickness that's not real.
Originally posted by spacevisitor
Anonymous ATS, I hope you get also a kick out this,
And how big do you estimate those “space dust particles” must be then when you compare the size of them in relation with the length of the tether and cable [12 mile long]?
It must be flying Space Mountains then if I am correct.
Please explain that because I don’t know the meaning of ARC.